Missileers at 
Vandenberg AFB, Calif., launched an unarmed Minuteman III ICBM on Sept. 7, successfully sending its re-entry vehicles 30 minutes later to targets, some 4,200 miles away, at the Ronald Reagan Test Site on Kwajalein Atoll. Participating in this launch were airmen from the 91st Space Wing, Minot AFB, N.D., in addition to numerous 30th SW personnel at Vandenberg.
Fresh off the first combat deployment of its new EA-37B, the Air Force is nearly doubling the planned number of new electronic attack jets and projecting more than $3 billion in spending on the program in the next five years.